Tuesday, June 25, 2002

IT'S TIME TO CLEARLY DISTINGUISH THE GOOD GUYS FROM THE BAD GUYS MORE EVIDENCE OF SAUDI COMPLICITY IN TERRORISM: These guys need to listen to Bush's speech again. [InstaPundit] 4:37:05 PM     Comments[]

THE KEY WORDS ARE "VALUE EXCELLENCE" I came to the conclusion that at some point our civilization will either value excellence in information technology, or will die. We're building so many systems on the little ones and zeroes, but yet our universities turn out crappy developers with no ladder to climb, few real heroes to look up to, no bonafide life saving techie role models. [Scripting News] 4:28:26 PM     Comments[]

FINDING YOUR FUTURE Opinion Research reports that almost 40 percent of all adults find the idea of owning a business extremely interesting. A whopping 96 percent of the population between 25 and 44 years of age also feels this way. The first question facing a wanna-be entrepreneur is: "What kind of business should I start?"  # [John Henry on Business] 3:55:36 PM     Comments[]

THE TEXT OF THE SPEECH I hope the White House site manages link-rot well! ""I can understand the deep anger and despair of the Palestinian people. For decades you've been treated as pawns in the Middle East conflict."" [Daypop Top 40] 3:17:14 PM     Comments[]

THE LATEST POST TO MY "TEDIOUS ONLINE DIARY" If You Were a Well-Paid Newspaper Columnist Covering the Silicon Valley, Would You Write This?: Wired magazine, a scout for all that is cyberhip, marked the change with a story titled “Blogging Goes Legit, Sort Of.” My reaction? Whatever. Blogs reside at what these days is the busy intersection of technology, voyeurism and self-absorption. (Think “Survivor,” “Fear Factor,” “Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska.”) And in that way they are a fine measure of what we've become: people who think their warped relationships, car trouble and mental illnesses are of interest to a vast audience. Cyberhip? This column, which treats all blogs as tedious online diaries, was written by Mike Cassidy, who is very happy to tell his Silicon Valley readers that he’s “never been an early adopter.” The column ends with an unfunny fake blog post that has nothing in common with the last 2,000 blog posts I’ve read. This type of column -- the “I turned my back on a not-very-new trend of specific interest to my readers, so now, instead of catching up, I’m going to make fun of it” piece -- is a sub-category just dominated by monopolist daily newspapers. [Matt Welch's Warblog] 3:10:31 PM     Comments[]

DOES PASSPORT GIVE WAY TO PALLADIUM? WOW. When I wrote tomorrow's TechCentralStation column, I hadn't heard about this. But it's pretty close to what I warn against. [InstaPundit] 3:03:03 PM     Comments[]

SECOND HALF RECOVERY LOOKS DOUBTFUL FedEx's net doubled for its fiscal fourth quarter, recovering from charges a year earlier. But the shipping company issued a first-quarter forecast that trailed analysts' expectations. [Wall Street Journal] 2:40:33 PM     Comments[]

THE BODY'S MECHANICS For a system called a copier, we call a service technician. For a system called a toilet, we call a plumber. For a system called a car, we call a mechanic. For a system called a body, we call a doctor. When we value our entertainers, we pay millions. When we value our teachers, we pay thousands. Why? 10:01:54 AM     Comments[]

THIS MIGHT BE A HORSE RACE Buy.com takes on Amazon on books. Buy.com is broadening its war with Amazon.com, promising to sell its books at 10 percent below Amazon's prices, the company plans to announce on Tuesday. [CNET News.com] 8:18:03 AM     Comments[]

SELLING AIRPORTS - WHAT A NOVEL IDEA! Sydney Airport Sold To Bank-Led Group. Sydney Airport, the largest airport in Australia, was sold today for 5.6 billion Australian dollars, or $3.2 billion. By The New York Times. [New York Times: Business] 8:14:14 AM     Comments[]

BROADBAND RULES Dan Bricklin points to a new report from Pew's study of broadband usage: "Once again, this group is giving us some real data to help us understand what real people do with the Internet, not imaginary people dreamed up by companies who only think of "consumers" and "viewers". It is definitely worth reading this report in detail, and, of course, it's available on the Web." [lawrence's notebook] 7:49:12 AM     Comments[]

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